Muddle, you may wish you would have the capability for that kind of forgiveness, but I don't think it is necessary.

There is evil and it does not need to be forgiven. You don't need to forgive this man and you don't need to forgive other people who have committed unspeakable acts like this one. You don't have to forgive the Columbine shooters, Al Capone, Ted Bundy, Hitler, etc.

I know the saying is judge not, lest ye be judged. So don't judge the man, maybe he was just troubled - heck, obviously he was troubled - but don't forgive him.

Forgive accidents - this was no accident. It was a pre-meditated plan that he had thought out for a long, long time.

And I really disagree with the Amish lady quoted in the story saying it was all a part of God's plan. That is just gross. If it was part of God's plan to have a man assassinate little girls execution style, I don't think I want any part of that God.

People who can forgive unspeakable acts like that, especially so soon after the acts themselves, aren't saints. They are in denial. Hatred for the act and the person who committed them is reasonable. You can hope that the man finds forgiveness from God (unlikely in my book - at least I hope it is) but as a man and not a God, you don't have to give the man any more consideration than the monster he is, or was.

That's just my opinion - I could be wrong.

No, there is no way I could ever be that Christian towards the murderer of those innocent girls. This man is a Saint.

read about it above - muddle has the link